Q2.  At this moment at the Armory, what did Toby Tanser say? (a) "How come I am staring into another camera staring at me ... ?" (b) "I can't believe this!  But my camera says that the disk is FULL!" (c) "I can't believe this!  But the person does not appear in the LCD!  Is he really a vampire?" (d) "I can't believe this!  But my camera says it's out of battery at this moment!"

Q3. Which one of these people is the fastest runner? (photo credit:  Global Surveillance System (TM)) (a)  Ross Galitsky (b) Rich Joseph (c) Julie Denney (d) Scott Willett

Q4. What is the purpose of this photo? (a)  To show you how to double-knot your shoe laces (b) To show you how to open the envelop to get your Champion chip out (c) To show you how to tie your Champion chip into your shoe laces (d) To show you the pair of 3:00:09 marathon legs

Q5. This is the face attached to the public announcement system at the Armory Track.  What is his most common saying? (a)  "Rock, rock, rock around the clock ..." (b) "If you run 30 seconds or faster per lap, you should be in lane 4.  If you run slower than 30 seconds, you should be in lane 2.  You should never be in lane 1." (c) "It is now nine p.m.  You have half an hour left before the session is over." (d) "All teams should run in groups of eight people or fewer.  There are nine people in this group, so you better break it up."

ANSWERS:

Q1.  (a)  After the February 1, 2001 workout, Audrey Kingsley said to Michele Tagliati, "Just wait one minute for me, and I'll run back to the East Side with you."  At that moment, the neutral referee started his stopwatch, and 5:49.57 was her actual time of departure.  (Technical explanation: The New York Minute is a special program segment on WNYW-TV in which many different events are compressed within a one minute report with the second clock running at the bottom of the tv screen.)

• Rob Zand contributed the following: "'A New York Minute' is also a song by the Eagles.  I was going to call it 'a really bad song' but that would be redundant.  All Eagles songs are really bad."  Hey, Rob, take it easy, take it easy, don't let the sound of your own
  wheels make you crazy ... 

• The Eagles' song has this refrain:
       In a New York minute
       Everything can change
       In a New York minute
       Things can get a little strange
       In a New York minute
       Everything can change
       In a New York minute
  and it also has this verse:
       In these days
       The darkness falls early
       And people rush home
       To the ones they love
       You'd better take the fool's advice; take care of your own
       'Cause one day they're here; next day they're gone
  Apparently, not everybody is in a rush to get home ...

• Jonathan Cane wrote: "For the record, Mr. Zand's is not quite right in his appraisal of New York Minute.  It is in fact a Don Henley song, not an Eagles song. Mr. Henley was a member (vocals and drums) of the Eagles, but the song was from a solo project."

• The American Heritage  Dictionary defines 'A New York Minute' as 'Slang An extremely short period of time.'

Q2.  (d)  This is a TRUE story.

Q3.  (b)  This is not a trivia question, it is just a trivial question.  By default, Rich Joseph is the fastest runner since the other three (namely, the troika of Ross-Julie-Scott) are all self-professed "I-am-not-a-runner" triathletes.  Since this picture was taken at a cross-country ski outing in which they 'bumped' into each other 'accidentally', the more interesting question ought to be, "Which one of these people is the better skier?"  Surprisingly, our eyewitness reports that Rich may be a better skier than runner!

Q4.  (d)  Who is that?  We assume that you must know the famous person who owns those famous legs.  Postscript:  The owners of those legs said, "I thought about sending a protest note about this photo and demand a retraction.  But I realized that all that might do would be to bring up an even worse picture.  So I decided not to."  Post-postscript:  A photo like this was not totally frivolous.  The day after the publication of this picture, it came to the attention of the owner of those legs that there was indeed someone on the team who did not know how to tie his laces properly ...

Q5. NOT (a)